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Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop

Posted by kdawson on from the no-less-no-more dept.

zerothink writes "American student Lily Sussman, 21, upon entry into Israel from Taba (Egypt, Sinai) caught Israeli border police in grumpy mood — after two hours of questions and searching through her belongings they decided to put three bullets through her laptop. Explanation? 'I'm sorry but we had to blow up your laptop.' Haaretz also covered the story." All three bullets missed the hard disk.

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  1. Re:Conveniently forgetting the details by jbssm · · Score: 1, Troll
    Please give me a single reference where in any modern world (modern being after XV century) police or military forces protocol, says that you should soot an object suspect of harboring explosive charges !

    That's ridiculous. And in fact the details the grandparent stated really give the big picture here, since I was also wondering why the heck would the police shoot a laptop ... 3 times. Now I understand what's going on. Fascism has got these kind of attitudes.

    Well, at least they didn't shoot the owner of the laptop ... I guess she was the wrong colour and nationality for them to just don't care about the consequences of shooting an innocent ... this time.